Category: Press Releases

  • Israeli soldiers detain five Palestinian Schoolboys in South Hebron Hills

    21 November 2010 | Christian Peacemaker Team At-Tuwani – Claiming that the children were throwing stones, Israeli soldiers detained five Palestinian schoolboys. Since the beginning of 2005, the children from the village of Tuba wait every morning for an Israeli army escort to accompany them to the school in At-Tuwani, along the shortest road that…

  • Action Alert: Tell your MP that war criminals should be prosecuted not welcomed!

    4 November 2010 | Palestine Solidarity Campaign Yesterday, the Foreign Secretary William Hague reiterated the government’s commitment to urgently resolve the “unacceptable situation” with regard to universal jurisdiction during his visit to Israel. The coalition government want to change the current legislation to give the Director of Public Prosecutions power over issuing arrest warrants against…

  • Israeli Military’s negligence exposes schoolchildren to Israeli settler threats

    25 October, 2010 | Christian Peacemaker Team On the afternoon of Monday October 25th, Palestinian schoolchildren from the villages of Tuba and Maghayir al Abeed were threatened by four adult Israeli settlers from the Havat Ma’on outpost while walking home from school. The children, aged 6-13, were walking without their normal Israeli military escort because…